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This is a list of video games that center upon the fictional character of Nancy Drew. Some of the games are adaptations of various Nancy Drew books, while others are not. The games for computer and mobile, some of which were ported to game consoles, have been developed and published by HeR Interactive.
Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy; Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister; Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge; Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse; Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes; Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen; Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device; Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall; Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy; Nancy Drew: The Shattered Medallion ...
The game is set in 1930, at the beginning of the Great Depression in the small fictional town of Titusville, Illinois. Nancy Drew has been asked to come to the Lilac Inn to see Emily Crandall, whom Nancy knows only through a mutual friend. Emily's mother died a month ago, leaving her to run the inn with the help of her guardian, Jane Willoughby.
The game is loosely based on the book The Message in the Haunted Mansion (1995). Message in a Haunted Mansion was a commercial success, with sales of 300,000 units and revenues of $5.5 million in the United States alone by August 2006. At the time, Edge named it the country's 64th-best-selling computer game of the 21st century.
Inspired by comics such as Afterlife with Archie, [167] the series is a hardboiled noir take on the characters, and finds Nancy Drew as a femme fatale-esque character helping Frank and Joe Hardy clear their names in the murder of their father, Fenton Hardy. [168] The series received positive reviews, with praise going toward its noir-themed tone.
[1] [2] [3] The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and tobacco references. Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and must solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues. [4] [5]
A 9-year-old 4th grader appeared in many books in these series. These series are not completely different from the Nancy Drew Notebooks series but in these series, Ned made more appearances. In these series, he is a boy whom Nancy Drew takes a liking to for being a good friend. He first appears in book #10, Ticket Trouble.
The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E10+ for moments of mild violence. Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and must solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles and discovering clues.